LHR Airport Live Flight Status: London Heathrow
LHR Airport, formally London Heathrow Airport (IATA LHR, ICAO EGLL), serves London in the United Kingdom and sits at the very top of our own 30-day measurement: it is the busiest airport in our data. Our database places it at 51.4707 degrees north, 0.4599 degrees west, and lists it in the large airport size class. The live radar on this page shows the aircraft arriving at and departing from LHR right now, with the arrivals and departures pages linked under it for flight times and status; the sections below add what our own numbers say about the airport: which airline pages to check for a specific flight, how the traffic we measured spreads over the day, and which other London airports have their own pages on this site.
Live Air Traffic near LHR Airport Live Flight Status: London Heathrow
Every tracked flight due to land at London Heathrow Airport today appears on the arrivals page, with its origin, scheduled and estimated times and current status; outbound flights are on the departures page. Both update continuously in the airport's local time. Missing a flight you expected? Check the exact flight number with the airline, because codeshare flights are listed under the operating carrier's number.
Airport information
| Airport code | EGLL |
|---|---|
| IATA | LHR |
| Type | International airport |
| City | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Continent | Europe |
| Elevation | 83 ft (25 m) |
| Coordinates | 51.4707, -0.4599 |
LHR Airport Live Flight Status: London Heathrow on Google Maps
Heathrow 
Clear sky
Humidity: 55
Wind: 4.04 m/sec
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Which airline status page to check at LHR
The gap between British Airways and the rest of the field is what stands out in our Heathrow data. In our own 30-day measurement, British Airways accounted for 1,163 movements at Heathrow, compared with 87 for United Airlines and 70 for American Airlines over the same 30 days, so British Airways appeared far more often than its closest measured rival. Of the carriers we measured at Heathrow, British Airways was by far the largest; those three are the only carriers in our package for LHR. If you are following one specific flight rather than the airport as a whole, the airline page is the faster route: British Airways flight status for the carrier that dominates our Heathrow count, and United Airlines flight status and American Airlines flight status for the two carriers we recorded at 87 and 70 movements.
What our 30-day measurement shows
Over 30 days, our own reception measurement recorded an average of 109.4 aircraft movements per day at Heathrow, the figure that puts LHR at the top of our measurement. The busiest window in that period fell between 06:00 and 08:00. Our measurement clock runs in UTC, so add the offset for London local time when you read it alongside the radar on this page. That early-morning stretch is when we recorded the most movements at Heathrow; if your flight sits in that window, checking its status a little earlier than usual is worth the habit.
Other airports around London
For travelers weighing an alternative for their trip, the two closest options with their own pages on this site are London City Airport at 36 km and London Gatwick Airport at 41 km; both distances come from our database and are measured from Heathrow. Heathrow itself is one of the airports we cover in the United Kingdom; the country page lists the other UK airports on this site, and it is the place to start for a journey that touches more than one of them.